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tentaculata, with the habit of N. gracilis, but the whole plant purplish in 
colour, was plentiful. Of the magnificent N. Rajah, however, described 
by St. John (7. 324) and Burbidge (9. 108) as abundant in this spot, not one 
specimen was seen. 
Exposed yellow rock, the same colour as the clay, so rotten that it crumbled 
in one’s hand, cropped out towards the top of the marshy ground, where our 
camp was pitched. Beyond this rock, which was dotted with Leptospermum 
reeurvum, covered with ifs snowy blossom, the open space broadened still 
further until it opened out into an upper, more or less flat, soaked area of 
hummocky ground, carrying only a surface vegetation. 
The open lower terraced area was bordered by a dense scrub association 
of small trees, about 5-7 m. high, in which the mature form of Dacrydium 
Gibbsie was conspicuous with its erect candelabra-like branches, suggesting 
some species of Araucaria in habit, as previously described by Low (2. 14, 
* Amacaria?) ; also Podocarpus brevifolius, whose dense dark green foliage 
contrasted in colour with the bright red of its young shoots, Scavola pedun- 
culata var. mollis, collected by Haviland and recently described from 
Palawan by Merrill, Leptospermum recurvum, a form of L. javanicum and 
the handsome Felicia Maxwelliana, fastigiate in habit, with sweet-scented, 
white, eauline flowers. 
The rain continued steadily all night, but at about 7 A.M. next morning it 
ceased a little and the clouds rose, disclosing a partial view. They soon 
closed in again, however, and it seemed hopeless to spend any more time up 
there. Instructions were, therefore, given to the Dusuns to pack up every- 
thing, and my boy returned with them to Kiau in charge of specimens, 
while three or four coolies and the invaluable Lamat remained with us, 
as we were anxious to exceed St. John’s and Low’s record of 6200' on 
this spur. 
First erossing the soaked area covered with small plants of Nepenthes 
tentaculata, showing only little groups of radical pitchers of the characteristic 
purplish colour, we came to the forest fringe, where many dead pitchers of 
N. Lowii lay on the ground. I could not see the plant, but found one 
of N. Bosehiana, an epiphyte with handsome green pitchers with browned 
splashings ; then through a fringe of Helicia Maxwelliana we passed into a 
mossy forest, which clothed the steep slopes to the granite core. 
The moss grew thickly on the ground and up the branches of the trees, 
which were a beautiful sight, literally garlanded with Nepenthes Edwardsiana, 
the vines passing from tree to tree, with the wonderfully coloured large bright 
red pitchers, shading to green at the base, hanging vertically in profusion 
from them. Bambusa (?) Gibbsie was associated with it in profusion, also 
Gleichenia vulcanica. 
Of the trees, Ardisia brachythyrsa,  Urophyllum lineatum, Dacrydium 
